The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 22
But if he did not hear me, what can I do to get another chance?
Who acts: King, I · What happens: not hear, do, get · To what, where: me, chance
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 do | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hear | advmod |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 do | advcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 hear | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hear | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 do | obj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 do | advcl |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 chance | det |
| 16 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | King | me | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | can | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | another chance | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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